Kiev is concentrating troops in an attempt to retake the key Donbass city of Artyomovsk, known as Bakhmut in Ukraine, the Russian Ministry of Defense has announced. According to the ministry, Ukrainian units are “taking advantage of [Wagner chief Evgeny] Read more…
Two weeks after the suspension and the arrest of former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, President Bola Tinubu has finally spoken on the issue, describing the financial system under Emefiele as rotten. Emefiele was picked up Read more…
Anambra State Governor, Prof. Charles Soludo, has urged the Federal Government to deploy a huge percentage of funds saved from fuel subsidy withdrawal to infrastructure and social development. Speaking at the Nigerian Academy of Engineering Annual Lecture with the theme: Read more…
President Bola Tinubu on Friday objected to the tendering of some documents by the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in proof of his petition against the declaration of Tinubu as winner of the February 25 Read more…
A Minna Senior magistrate court in Niger state has sentenced a Police Inspector Gbenga Fajuyi to 22years in the Correctional Centre for Impregnating his 13-year-old daughter. Fajuyi was said to have been having carnal knowledge of his biological daughter from Read more…
Candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr. Peter Obi, who alleged that the presidential election that held on February 25 was rigged in favour of President Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, on Friday, closed his case. Read more…
A glut of unsold Nigerian oil has built up again with as much as half of output due to be loaded next month still searching for buyers. Traders of the nation’s oil said the surplus has been caused in part Read more…
The suspended head of Nigeria’s central bank, who was detained earlier this month, poses a threat to the nation’s security and should be denied bail, the secret police said in a court filing. An investigation is under way into whether Read more…
Ukraine’s ongoing counteroffensive against Russian forces is “not meeting expectations on any front,” Western and US officials told CNN on Thursday. Ukrainian troops and armor are proving “vulnerable” to Russian minefields, missiles, and air power, they added. “Russian lines of Read more…
Secretary General of Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP), Chief Willy Ezugwu is in this interview spoke on various issues including expectations from the 10th National Assembly, government’s removal of subsidy on petrol and call by his group for the Read more…
President Bola Tinubu has not approved any salary increase for political and judicial office holders, a spokesperson has said. Dele Alake, a spokesperson for the president, was reacting to a statement credited to an official of the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation Read more…
he Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has urged the federal government to shelve its plan to increase electricity tariff by 40 per cent July 1, 2023. It said that if nothing is done to halt increases in tariffs and cost of goods Read more…